Category Archives: Students

Join us for Beyond Albion

Beyond Albion is Tuesday, Sept. 19 from 4-6 p.m. in Upper Baldwin. The event merges the Gerstacker Institute Recruitment Night, the Ford Institute Service Organization and Grad School Fair, and the Domestic Off-Campus Program Fair. This annual fall event is for students seeking full-time employment, internships, after-graduation service projects, information on graduate/professional programs and domestic off-campus studies. For those seeking a job or internship, Beyond Albion is an opportunity to present yourself professionally in person to a potential employer while showcasing your communication skills. Remember to request a professional resume review with the Career and Internship Center (careers@albion.edu). For questions, please contact one of the following: Roy Mathews (Gerstacker) at rmathews@albion.edu; Eddie Visco (Ford) at evisco@albion.edu; or Dawn Hernandez (CIC) at dhernandez@albion.edu.

Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2023 by Dawn Hernandez (dhernandez@albion.edu)

Bobbitt Visual Arts Center exhibition program

The Department of Art and Art History announces the opening of the exhibition programs in the Munro and Dickinson galleries, located in the Bobbitt Visual Arts Center. We invite you to visit our first two shows of the fall semester. The Dickinson Gallery will feature “Signs, Symbols, Serenades,” prints from the Albion College Collection. The Munro Gallery will feature “What Keeps You Up At Night,” by Tomiko Jones. Please join us for Tomiko’s virtual lecture Tuesday, Sept. 12 at 6 p.m. in the Bobbitt Auditorium.

Open gallery hours are:

• Monday, by appointment only
• Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Wednesday, by appointment only
• Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Friday, 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2023 by Mary Morrow (mmorrow@albion.edu)

Spiritual life office hours

The assistant director for spiritual wellness will hold open office hours on Wednesday from 1:00 to 3:00 in the counseling center and on Friday from 2:00 to 5:00 in Kellogg 301. Stop by for a chat (or a good cry as needed). You can also schedule an appointment by emailing Laura at ltodd@albion.edu.

Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2023 by Laura Todd (ltodd@albion.edu)

Labor Day reflection: the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

With the expansion of the Transcontinental Railroad connecting the American North to South and East and West full service, first-class rail accommodations emerged as the pinnacle of late 19th and 20th-century travel. At the helm of this technological middle-class experience was an army of African-American men known as Sleeping Car Pullman Porters. The company was created in 1867 shortly after slavery had ended, George Pullman seeing the apocryphal mystique of the antebellum South, Pullman Porters existed to be the personification of that belief. Subjected to long working hours, low wages, and perpetual discrimination the Pullman Porters banded together to form the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925 by A. Phillip Randolph. The labor union was integral in convincing FDR to sign Executive Order 8802 in 1941 banning discrimination in defense contract manufacturing labor. We remember the contributions of the people whose contributions helped to make America a better place today.

Posted on Monday, September 04, 2023 by Mr. Ari McCaskill (amccaskill@albion.edu)

Labor Day reflection: A requiem of thanksgiving – Colored National Labor Union

As the summer winds down, Labor Day brings appreciation for the sacrifices for an equitable America. After Emancipation, newly freed Black people sought economic independence and parity with their white American contemporaries. Emerging from this pursuit was the creation of Black organized labor. One of these, which approached labor rights from intersectional identities of the people who did the labor was the mostly Black Washers Woman. Not apprised of the rights of white women of the era, Black women forged together to establish one of the first women’s labor unions in America. For more info see Tera W. Hunter’s book “To ’Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War”.  In 1869, the Colored National Labor Union was created due to discrimination Black people faced in mostly white, larger national labor unions. Its expansion captured the attention of civil rights leaders of the era prompting Frederick Douglass to become its second president in 1872.

Posted on Monday, September 04, 2023 by Mr. Ari McCaskill (amccaskill@albion.edu)